I've never used Prism Video Converter. Can it be that PVC is writing .AVI files with no video compression (codec) resulting in large files? Using GSpot (http://gspot.headbands.com/ <http://gspot.headbands.com/> ) to read the resulting .AVI file will verify that.
I had a similar issue with VirtualDub where it converted .MPG files to .AVI files with no video compression, so a 30-second .AVI file would be 917 MB. I had to go through the extra step of importing the uncompressed .AVI file into Premiere Pro and writing it back out as an .AVI file (with encoding) and the size went down 108 MB making it playable with no stuttering. MPEG Streamclip (http://www.squared5.com <http://www.squared5.com> ) should be able to convert an .MP4 file to .AVI with encoding. (It does not work for me probably because I have QuickTime Alternative installed, so I have to bring the file over to the Mac and use QuickTime Pro to convert it to .AVI and bring it back to the PC. This sounds cumbersome, but at least it works all the time in my tight-deadline production environment.) Incidentally, I just tried to download and install Prism Video Converter and chose MainConcept DV Video Encoder for the encoding options. But attempting to convert an .MP4 file results with an "Error during the conversion process" message. This may be due to having QuickTime Alternative mentioned earlier. RDH --- In [email protected], "Steve Hacker" <stevejhac...@...> wrote: > I was thinking exactly the way you are, and using a program called "Prism Video Converter", I converted all the files from MP4 to AVI, but when I did, the files became HUGE, and the system would barely play them at all, only with a slow-motion-style frame-by-frame click-along....TOTALLY UNUSABLE. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
